THE REAL MUDFEST DOESN'T INVOLVE ANY DEMOCRATS-- BUT YOU'D NEVER KNOW THAT BY WATCHING CNN

CNN keeps referring to the overly polite and mild disagreements between the Democratic presidential contenders as "rolling in the mud" (ex-Fox talking head/right-wing propaganda agent Kiran Chetry). The pathetic pygmies™, on the other hand, are just engaging in high level debate. That high level debate took an interested and many-faceted couple of twists and turns today. Just as Giuliani's polling numbers were tanking in South Carolina, an e-mail went out to Iowa evangelicals about Giuliani's pedophile priest-in-residence/best buddy Alan Placa. Now regular DWT readers know exactly who and what Alan Placa is. Iowa evangelicals just found out today.

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:36:01 -0500
From: david.gop.overholtzer@gmail.com
To: david.gop.overholtzer@gmail.com
Subject: Giuliani and his Pedophile Friends

Dear Iowa Voters,

If Rudy becomes president, is he planning on putting people like Catholic priest Msgr. Alan Placa in his Cabinet? I hope not! Remember Fr. Placa when you go to the caucuses, and make sure your friends know, too!

Giuliani Adviser is an Accused Pedophile Priest?

Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:26 AM
To: Overholtzer, David
Subject: gmail blast


No; per Jill, send the Rudy one about the priest to the Evangelical list, gmail it, thanks

Couple of problems with this. First of all, Giuliani is barely a factor in Iowa-- certainly not in the top 3, and not really worth bashing Second, the purported sender, paid-off Mitt Romney stooge David Overholtzer didn't send the e-mail. But the e-mail was purposely made to look like it was a premeditated smear against Giuliani by the Romney campaign. It is generally acknowledged that it came directly from Huckabee's campaign in order to smear both Romney and Giuliani, which is odd because it has been assumed-- just ask Rahm Emanuel-- that all Huckabee really wants is to be Rudy's vice presidential nominee.

And if that isn't muddy enough for Chetry and her ilk, there's the story we reported on early about Huckabee's campaign making a not so subtle religious (read: anti-Mormon) appeal to Iowa evangelicals just as Romney was gratuitously assuring them that he hates Muslims as much as they do. And speaking about the religionists showing up at the races, today we had the son of one dead disgraced evangelical endorsing Huckabee while another pack of right-wing religionist nuts, the Republican Majority for Choice PAC, announced they are buying $100,000 worth of 30-second TV spots slamming Flip Flop Mitt in Iowa, as well as full page ads Sunday in the Des Moines Register and the Concord Monitor and an unspecified number of TV spots in New Hampshire. Ironically, the vicious campaign which talks about Romney as a pro-choice abortion advocate is being run by a bunch of Giuliani backers!

But the Republican story du jour may not have been leaked by one of the pygmies™ at all. Turns out Security Expert/multimillionaire Rudy Giuilani, back when he was mayor, was billing little known city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses so he could sneak out to the Hamptons are carry on one of his extramarital affairs without anyone knowing.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”

...Auditors "were unable to verify that these expenses were for legitimate or necessary purposes," City Comptroller William Thompson wrote of the expenses from fiscal year 2000, which covers parts of 1999 and 2000.

Giuliani refuses to comment. Give him a day or two to come up with something. I'm sure Kiran Chetry will tell us all about it.